Category: Spain
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Lords of the Flies
You build your city alongside a river. The river floods. A lot. And after a while, the flooding is so frequent and so bad you get sick of it. So what do you do? You divert the river around the town and turn the Old River bed into a miles-long park. Better yet, how about…
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The Champion
The sunswept city of Barcelona fades into the distance as I write this post, and with it, the winner of the “Best Church on the Trip” contest. Barcelona is a city of 5 million people, and after putting in nearly 30,000 steps exploring today we feel we have a pretty good flavor of it. The…
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No Fish, No Shopping … No Problem
We woke up Thursday morning in Palamos, Spain. Hola! The day started with a 5-hour snorkeling adventure. It included an hour of snorkeling and very little adventure. Saw some seaweed and a couple of fish, but it was so windy the grouper and other large fish we hoped to see apparently left town for the…